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On music, life and 'The Universal Tone' [P. 10] QUOTE OF THE WEEK:

"In this series, the host travels the world to try cocktails and brews in exotic locales. In our family, we call that 'traveling.'" [SEE PAGE 14]

Upfront Trail-use policies approved in Marin—is the debate over? 6

Talking Pictures The Drunk Ex-Pastors on gods, kings and Batman as Moses 16

Best of Marin 2015 Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the ‘best’ of them all?

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››LETTERS Flogging the truth

The charge of the bite brigade!

The dinner rush

I would like to nominate a driver for Dine-In Marin as a big, fat dangerous zero. On the night of Dec. 19, while getting on the freeway on-ramp northbound 101, Sir Francis Drake, the driver tried to pass me on the right, almost hit another car in front of him, then when he was again behind me, he passed on the left across two lanes to pass me and then back to the right number-four lane, again, almost hit me and another car in front of him. Great, just what we need. I guess getting food to customers is more important than the accident almost caused and accidents caused to the people of Marin.

Ron Essrig, San Rafael

Senator Feinstein released that report [about the enhanced interrogation by the CIA], even though the Secretary of State tried to dissuade her from releasing it when she did. Some very senior retired military officers and former top CIA people have said the report could hamper our future intelligence efforts, endanger our operatives in the field and even cost lives.

We can thank all the agencies involved in keeping us safe since 9/11. We have had three failures, and missions have succeeded. The shoe bomber got his bomb aboard the plane. We are fortunate that it didn’t detonate. The underwear bomber got his bomb aboard the plane and we are fortunate that it did little damage.

The Boston Marathon bombers achieved complete success.

The subject of the Geneva Convention was mentioned in a letter to you. The Geneva Convention resulted in an agreement by the countries that signed it, that they would conform to certain standards in the conduct of war. Specifically relating to military personnel captured in combat while wearing their country’s uniform.

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If you were captured not wearing the uniform, you could be classed as a spy and would not have the protection of the Geneva Convention.

The hijackers had no uniforms; they did not represent a specific country.

They walked aboard the planes in civilian attire, using tickets they had bought.

When the planes were in the air, they attacked the crews. They didn’t even give them a chance to live. They killed them by cutting their throats with box cutters. They then took over the planes and flew them directly into buildings.

The Twin Towers, the Pentagon and fortunately the passengers rebelled and caused the last plane to crash in Pennsylvania, before it could reach its target.

No hijackers survived, so we couldn’t get to them. The people who planned and put the operation in effect, did survive. We did get some of them and thanks to the efforts of our interrogators, we did get some valuable information. Those people did not come under the protection of the Geneva Convention.

Charles G. Avery, U. S. Navy, Retired

They did their jobs—bravo!

The Marin County Board of Supervisors approved the Draft Housing Element on Dec. 9, identifying development sites for 378 new units of affordable housing. Although this is less than half of the 791 approved in the previous Housing Element, still it’s a good start, and the Board of Supervisors should be thanked for doing the right thing. It is remarkable that the issue aroused such controversy, given the obvious need for such housing. Perhaps the controversy will now pass, and Marin can begin to take steps to one day becoming an affordable, livable and, if it’s not too much to hope for, a more economically and ethnically diverse community.

American moral values. There were five people in the debate and the speaker I was hearing was the only one standing for traditional values while the other four were on the side of change and the acceptance of “new standards.”

The new hot topic was: “Should consensual adult incest be legalized?”

A few years ago, in my annual practice of reading through the Bible, I noted all scriptures that refer to human sexuality.

Of all the forbidden acts mentioned, there were more laws against incest than any other sexual sin. Of all sexual sins, incest is the most destructive to the family and to society.

If consensual incest between adults becomes acceptable it will increase incest involving all ages. At present, incest between two consenting minors may get them in trouble with their families, but there is no legal action that can be taken unless there is a two-year gap between their ages. Then the older consenter can be charged with molestation.

At present, we have government-supported groups such as Planned Parenthood, who openly encourage young people of all ages to experiment with various types of sexual activities. With whom is it easier to experiment than those in your own household?

Recently, my wife participated in local grand jury hearings. The hearings were to determine whether or not there was enough evidence to bring the cases to trial.

All of the cases involved adult molestation of juveniles. Some involved incest.

Roger Stoll, San Rafael

Hmm, this gives us an idea for our next ‘Pac Sun’ readers’ poll On Sunday, Dec. 21, I heard a radio speaker tell about a recent debate in which he had been invited to participate. The subject of debate was the new hot topic in the changing of

Marrying within the family was strictly forbidden in the Bible; why, just ask Abraham and his wife/sister Sarah ...

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History teaches that the stability of society depends on the stability of the family. Acceptable incest would lead to the total destruction of the family. History has also taught us that the moral decay of a society only stops in one of two ways: There is either a moral revival or that society totally collapses.

Steve Casey, Sonoma

Holidays: the final word

Some go for chocolate, savory and divine, Some go for whisky, tequila and lime.

Some prefer turkey and some prefer ham, Some prefer stuffing with strawberry jam.

Some want the morning to come rather quick, Enthused for their bounty from good ole’ St. Nick.

Some want their stockings to brim with delight, While some just want warmth on a cold winter’s night.

Some want their presents up under the tree,

While some just want time spent with their family.

Some dream of sunshine while some dream of snow, Some want the rays of a cool winter’s glow.

Some long for families with whom they can dine, While some wish to relax alone with their wine.

Some prefer strudels and some prefer cake, Some prefer pies that entrance when they’re baked.

Some want the cookies while some want the joy, Some want the eggnog and some want the toys.

Some want an excuse to go have a ball ...

Some want the memories, but I want it ALL! Happy New Year! May you have a beautiful holiday with your loved ones, and may your smiles be filled with the sun, moon and stars.

Scott Harris, Marin

Our ‘best’ shot The 2015 Best of Marin theme announced!

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ur annual readers’ poll begins today, Jan. 2. Our annual readers’ poll is more than 30 years old. For the past 12 years we have created themes to add fun and intrigue.

The 2015 Best of Marin theme will be storybook, covering the gamut from enchantment to grim. Everyone has a classic story or fairytale that he or she can reminisce about, and this year’s Best of Marin will breathe new life into some of the darkest and brightest literary classics. With movies like Shrek and TV shows like Grimm and Once Upon a Time revamping and popularizing the iconic storybook tale, the theme is timely and relatable.

Do you remember these?

Pinocchio n Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf n Three Blind Mice n Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs n Cinderella n Sleeping Beauty n Merlin n Humpty Dumpty n Jack and Jill n Peter Pan n The Headless Horseman n

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Think of all the fun dress-up ideas for our photo shoot in late February: royalty outfits for fair maidens and armor for gallant knights, one-eyed pirates, face painting for animal outfits, and maybe Peter Pan will fly down from Mt. Tam and show up.

The Best of Marin is no longer a once-a-year event. The Pacific Sun is planning to bring you the Best of Marin every day, which is why we’re going digital!

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Speaking of parties, we want to throw another Best of Marin Red Carpet party in April. The party will celebrate all the Best of Marin winners that we publish in our two issues: March 27 and April 3. We welcome sponsors for this event to make it even better than last year.

There is a lot to be excited about when it comes to the Best of Marin.

The voting homepage will be filled with graphics inspired by our theme for 2015. Readers will have new photos, addresses, maps and information available for every business with the touch of his or her finger. We will introduce an easier ballot to complete online. And if our Kickstarter campaign is successful, we will have a new mobile app that will make it even easier to vote and to access information year-round.

With our new look and feel, we will also maintain our reader credibility with our annual readers’ poll. We still preach that there is no ballot-stuffing and no discount offers in exchange for a vote. We expect all participating businesses to honor this. Save your thank you deals for the end of February and March, when the Pacific Sun will have opportunities to share your specials with readers.

Our voting runs from Friday, Jan. 2 through Sunday, Feb. 15. Local businesses can begin to advertise on Jan. 2. Contact our representatives and ask about our new offers and packages.

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Path of most resistance Do bikers, hikers and equestrians finally agree on the newly approved Open Space District Road and Trail Management Plan?

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hen county supervisors recently approved a new plan that sets policies for trail use in Marin County open space preserves, they capped a long and contentious process in a quiet meeting marked by consensus. Hard work still lies ahead.

The meeting in which the supervisors approved the new plan was the 16th public session, including workshops, notes Linda Dahl, director and general manager at Marin County Parks and Open Space. The first meeting four years ago was marked by rancorous argument and a sign that the ensuing debate wouldn’t be genteel. But as the process unfolded under the guidance of stakeholders and Dahl’s open space department, it yielded a quiet assertion that hikers, mountain bikers and equestrians could, indeed, live together.

Maybe not in a rainbow world with unicorns and shafts of ethereal light falling on them, but they could find ways to live together on the county trail system.

Reaching that point of consensus “is

what you dream of in conflict resolution,” Dahl says. “The breakthrough was giving people a forum to have a conversation. Giving everybody a forum where they all had to come together and they all had to listen to each other and put themselves in each other’s shoes, and then agree that there should be rules and they would live by them,” created the process that led to the consensus.

Dahl and the county faced a daunting task: Creating rules for an open space system about which hard information didn’t exist. An ironic twist to a story that started when county officials in 1971 agreed that the hillsides and ridgetops of the county should be protected by concentrating development along corridors that corresponded to main roads.

As part of the process that led to the approval of the new road and trail plan, the county conducted for the first time an inventory of the trail system and assessed the condition of the trails. The county thought it had about 170 8>

giving may be over, but there are children in Marin who didn’t get what they had hoped for: a stable, loving home. Experiencing a shortage of temporary foster homes for the county’s most vulnerable kids, the Marin County Health and Human Services (HHS) Department has put a call out to residents interested in foster parenting.

On Wednesday, Jan. 7 in San Rafael, the HHS Children and Family Services Division will be offering an orientation, during which residents can learn about what the temporary care of boys and girls of all ages and socioeconomic backgrounds entails, and ask a social worker and experienced foster parent questions about the application and training process.

Typically providing a home for six to 12 months, foster parents may be of any adult age, of any sexual orientation and be single or part of a couple—married or not. Especially needed are foster families who can care for siblings who do not wish to be separated.

The children “have experienced separation and the effects of abuse and neglect,” according to a press release. But “are still growing and learning and can blossom in a family able to offer them safety.”

The orientation will take place from 7-8:30pm on Wednesday, Jan. 7 in room 107 of the Marin Health and Wellness Campus, 3250 Kerner Blvd., San Rafael. For more information, visit www.marinhhs.org/foster-care, or call Cindy Wasserman at 415/473-5028.—Molly Oleson

Recent storm damage totals estimated $13.3 million in Marin The hills may finally be green again, but Marin is paying a high price for the much-needed rain. According to an initial report from the county, an estimated $13,321,134 in damage from flooding, mudslides, winds, high tides and other storm damage since the Dec. 10-11 downpour has been sustained.

Compiled by the Marin County Department of Finance, Department of Public Works and the Marin County Sheriff-Coroner’s Office of Emergency Services, the estimate includes $9,324,134 in damage to public property and 3,997,000 in private damages to 34 homes, 11 businesses and two outbuildings.

Landslides on Highway 1, Tennessee Valley Road, Manzanita Road and Throckmorton Avenue ($4,640,000), levee damage in Novato and dune washout in Stinson Beach ($4,089,000), leaks and collapses in county-maintained buildings ($294,000), extra staffing during the storm ($191,422), and damage and debris-clearing ($108,712) comprised the public assistance damage estimate.

On Dec. 22, Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency to help pay for storm-related road damage in Marin and three other counties. County officials have worked on the initial damage estimate since a Dec. 16 proclamation of a state of emergency by the Marin County Board of Supervisors, and a review of the need for continuing the local emergency is scheduled for the Jan. 15 meeting of the Board of Supervisors.

Meanwhile, state and federal government reimbursements are pending, and some Marin residents may qualify for tax relief if they have sustained $10,000 or more worth of storm-related damage. More information at 415/473-7215.—MO

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Happy New Year to one and all ... to jog your memory on the past year, here are the Highlights of 2014, Part 2. I wish you all a great 2015!

1. In January, Spain invited what ethnic group, disbursed around the world for over 500 years, to return as citizens?

2. At the Grammy Awards in January, this group won the album of the year award. Name the electronic duo, the lead singer, the album title, and the top single from that album—happiest international hit of the year.

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3. In January, the George Washington Bridge Lane Closure Scandal erupted after the disclosure of Chris Christie political consultant Bridget Anne Kelly’s email announcing“Time for some ...”what?

4. In February, unrest in Ukraine led to Russia’s formal annexation of what peninsular region of Ukraine on the Black Sea? 5. What mayor, of what Canadian city, blamed his woes on using“every drug you can probably think of”... but in the mayor’s office, he claims, only alcohol?

6a. In February, Jimmy Fallon became The Tonight Show’s permanent host number what?

6b. In April, it was announced that David Letterman’s successor on The Late Show would be what witty pundit?

7. In which country, earlier this year, did Buddhist monks, encouraged by extremist leaders, wage battle against the local Muslims?

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8. It was the“Selfie of the Year,”witnessed by 40 million people.

Who took the photo, on whose iPhone, and at what event?

9. June-July: The 2014 FIFA World Cup was contested in what country? What two teams played in the final match, and who won?

10. In June, what Islamic militant group known by a four-letter abbreviation began a devastating offensive through parts of Iraq and Syria? Are they Sunni or Shia?

11. June 19: What 76-year-old Spanish king abdicated in favor of his 46-year-old son, who ascended the Spanish throne as King Felipe VI? 12a. At the MTV Video Music Awards in August, this won the video of the year—what song title, what singer?

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12b. What AMC production was named best TV drama series at the Golden Globes?

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13b. April 6: Child movie actor of the 1920s who starred in more than 300 movies spanning 88 years.

13c. April 20: American boxer, wrongly convicted of murder, and subject of the 1975 Bob Dylan song,“Hurricane.”

13d. June 15: Host of American Top 40 music show 13e. July 19: Actor who starred in TV’s Maverick and The Rockford Files 13f. August 12: Sultry actress, frequent Bogart co-star 13g. Sept. 12: British politician and first minister of Northern Ireland 13h. Nov. 19: German-born Mikhail Igor Peschkowsky, acclaimed actor, comedian and director of The Graduate, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf and The Birdcage.

Howard Rachelson invites you to live team trivia contests, Wednesday, Jan. 7, at the Broken Drum in San Rafael and Tuesday, Jan. 13 at the Terrapin Crossroads in San Rafael, both at 6:30pm. Have a great question?

Send it in and if we use it we’ll give you credit. Email Howard at howard1@triviacafe.com or visit www.triviacafe.com.

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▲ Chad and Carolyn Carvey gave the gift of light to boats anchored out in the Richardson Bay near Sausalito. Folks on the live-aboards don’t usually have electricity, making decorating with holiday lights difficult. The Carveys donated LED lights powered by solar energy to about 50 boats. The Sausalito Lions Club and the Christ Episcopal Church in Sausalito contributed to the purchase of the lights and other local merchants donated coffee, candy and waterproof cellphone bags. The idea behind the gifts is to encourage the live-aboards to feel that they’re part of the Sausalito community. Though controversy over the floating community remains due to fire, health and pollution hazards, the Carveys want to build a bridge over those troubled waters. We hope smooth sailing continues.

▼ Once again, a child was brought to Marin by a pimp. Unfortunately, the pair wasn’t here to enjoy a hike through Muir Woods or take selfies at Vista Point. They traveled to a Terra Linda hotel to sell the sexual services of a 16-year-old school girl, which begs the question, who among us is buying? San Rafael police think that the child may have had sex with more than one customer. While we hold the flesh-peddler responsible for trafficking and exploiting the minor, the men that answered the Internet ad are just as culpable.

Too bad we don’t have the names of the local customers, because they deserve to be outed and publicly humiliated. When a child is involved, prostitution is not a victimless crime.— Nikki Silverstein

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13a. Feb. 12: One of TV’s earliest superstars, best known for Your Show of Shows in the 1950s.

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13. Some more people who passed away in 2014:

Got a Hero or a Zero? Please send submissions to nikki_silverstein@yahoo.com.

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< 6 Path of most resistance miles of trails. Actually the inventory found about 250 miles of trails that fell into three categories.

When county residents voted to create the Open Space District in 1971 to purchase undeveloped land, the district inherited trails that ranchers had built as utilitarian connectors. The district created other sanctioned trails. And rogue users hacked some illegal trails. The road and trail plan looks at each of the three categories in a process that allows informed decisions about whether to retain a trail, improve a trail or eliminate a trail. The road and trail plan is a policy document rather than a call for specific actions.

In 2010, when the Board of Supervisors, acting as the board of the Open Space District, held a meeting to begin a review of management practices in the district, about 47.5 miles of non-system trails criss-crossed the patchwork of preserves. Mountain bikers could use 24 percent of the single-track trails and shared-use trails. Hikers and equestrians objected to any suggestion of expanding access to mountain bikers.

The battle lines drawn then were similar to the battle lines drawn in 2005, when a study of the county’s open space policies revealed that most Marin residents favored the status quo when it

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But contention on the roads and The problems of sharing trails with trails had simmered for some time and the minority of bikers who favor speed showed no signs of abating. The main over contemplation came to a head when issue focused on hikers and equestrians two equestrians on a single-track trail in who voiced concerns and complaints the Indian Tree Preserve in Novato said that mountain bikers rode too fast on that two boys on bikes flying around a shared routes, causing hazardous condiblind curve spooked the horses. One tions for everyone and generally creatof the riders was thrown and suffered ing an unpleasant experience for hikers spinal fractures. The horse she was ridand equestrians. Letters to the editor ing bolted and wasn’t recovered until decrying the bikers often appeared—and 24 hours later. The incident triggered still do—in waves. The fact that most renewed general condemnation of mountain bikers ride with courtesy is mountain biking. Although the two boys overshadowed by a rogue element that reportedly were about 10 or 12 years creates continual bad press for the bikold, an age of irresponsibility, mountain ers. bike critThe huge irony ics used the is that in the counincident to Reaching that point of consensus ty where mounrenew calls tain biking began, for limiting ‘is what you dream of in conflict trail-users wanted mountain resolution’. to limit bikers bike riding. from riding on Controlroads and trails in ling the relathe district. Back tively few in the 1960s, Joe Breeze and his friends rogue riders always has been looked at their fat-tire bikes and turned an issue when it comes to their heads toward Mount Tam. The early sharing trails. Bike groups attraction was inescapable. The boys be- have conducted their own gan riding the mountain. In doing so, outreach campaigns to they created a sport and an industry that educate their memberhas swept across the globe. The thrills are ship about the rules of unmistakable. But so is the impetus to get the trails and proper closer to nature at a slower pace, on foot etiquette. The situation and on horse and bike. The speed de- is analogous to drivers on mons often overshadow the more causal the freeway who speed wildly bikers who simply enjoy riding in nature. in the center lane—or the fast (Breeze now is curator at the nascent lane—and then at the last minute force

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their vehicles into a line leading to an exit ramp. The behavior has become common in Marin. The Highway Patrol cannot ticket all the recalcitrant drivers who show little respect for safety and etiquette. Neither can officials control all bikers who ride the roads and trails of the Open Space District. But that doesn’t mean drivers are inherently disobedient and uncaring. Neither does it mean all bikers are rogue elements. (The district has added nine rangers, and Dahl says the district can, if necessary, ticket rogue riders.)

In another irony, the challenge of sharing roads and trails in the district is exacerbated by the success the county has had in creating an open space system that’s enticing. In addition to Marin residents, people come from across the

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Bay Area and beyond to enjoy the road and trail system. The road and trail plan is, in part, an acknowledgement of that attraction.

Early in the process, a draft of the road and trail plan included policy implications that could have led to a strong prohibition of off-trail use for hikers.

That met opposition from critics who said a large part of the attraction of the open space in the county was the ability to wander in nature. The final version allows hikers to walk off of the roads and trails—as long as they are not unaccompanied by dogs. Mountain bikers and equestrians must stay on designated routes.

The change in policy is one example of how the public process helped shape the final version of the document. “It’s a small system” that has many users, Dahl says. “They like it because they want to experience nature. If everybody does everything they want to do, there’s no nature left.” The road and trail plan sets policies the county will use to create specific standards and procedures for each of its preserves.

“It’s a delicate balance,” Dahl says.

“The mandate is to let people enjoy. The big debate is how much enjoyment is too much and what’s appropriate enjoyment.

That’s what this process brought us to.”

When discussions started about creating the plan, the talk centered on what range of environmental pressure the county and users and residents were willing to accept. “We’ve done that” with the road and trail plan, Dahl adds.

“The process worked,” says Tom Boss of the Marin County Bicycle Coalition.

“We went into this process knowing we were going to have a seat at the table and we weren’t going to get everything we wanted. But Director Dahl told us

that [we would have a seat], and I think she honored that.” Boss says that bike advocates pushed for as many miles of trail as possible, and although the bike contingent didn’t get everything, it got “the key things we wanted.”

One of those keys includes a policy that strives for road and trail connectivity “for all trail-users.” The district will “consider one-way, uphill only, time separation and single-house or priorityuse trails to achieve these ends.” Wagon Wheel Trail in Camp Tamarancho in Fairfax is a mountain bike priority trail.

For 17 years the trail has been a priority route for bikes. No conflict has resulted among users, notes Vernon Huffman of Access4Bikes.

Like Boss, Huffman is pleased with the outcome of the road and trail debate.

“We’ve come a long way from that first contentious meeting,” he says. The Open Space District “has done an exceptional job of listening and responding to all the different interest groups” on the way to creating “an environmental protective document. It’s pretty impressive.”

The massive growth in the sport, the lifestyle, of mountain biking has changed the demographics on the roads and trails of the district. The management plan is an attempt to recognize the changing demographic and adjust policies to accommodate the new users as well as protect the legacy users. “We are now 25 to 30 percent of the users,” Huffman says. “We’re asking for change.

They are trying to accommodate it.”

Above all, the road and trail plan holds safety as the paramount goal, along with environmental protection.

The bike community also succeeded in winning an adjustment of how creating new trails will affect old ones. In a draft version, the plan called for no new

trail miles in the preserves. The plan delineated four zones, from the most environmentally sensitive to the most amendable to recreational use. In the most environmentally sensitive zone, if the district built a new trail, for every mile of new trail the district would eliminate two miles of old trail. In the other three zones, for every mile of trail that gets built, the district would eliminate a mile of old trail.

The calculation was based on linear miles of trail. Boss says that the bike coalition pushed for a different way to look at the trail-for-trail process. “We pointed out that removing one mile of steep fire road is going to have a greater effect than removing two or three miles of switchback trail that is much more gentle on the environment. Now, it’s the cumulative impacts rather than the linear” assessment that will decide how much trail must be removed to make way for new routes.

Although the policy document has been approved, the hard work of using the policies to create specific rules in the preserves is yet to come. Starting in a few months, the district will conduct

another series of open meetings to set specific rules and standards for the preserves.

Nona Dennis of the Marin Conservation League wanted those standards in the plan. She says that without them, the document is incomplete. “The things the plan does are good,” she says, but parameters for safe design of trails should be established and included as part of the plan. (Dennis calls the road and trail plan basically a mountain bike plan.) Dahl, Boss and Huffman say that setting overall standards is too general an approach. A better way to accomplish what Dennis talks about should come as the district sets specific rules for each preserve. Setting those rules sets up the next round of debate.

Huffman adds that Access4Bikes is ready to move to other agencies in a wider push for bike access. He says that the Marin Municipal Water District is next. “No legal bike trails exist on Water District land,” he says, and that land represents “the heart of Marin.” Y Contact the writer at peter@pseidman.com.

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Carlos Santana Still searching for—and finding—that ‘Universal Tone’ by Steve Heilig

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n the past decade, it was quite possible for virtually any Marinite to have lunch with one of modern music’s biggest legends— Carlos Santana. All one had to do was show up for lunch at the original corner site of Sol Food in San Rafael, and if he was not on tour, chances are he’d be there, eating at the counter. But it seemed even big fans wouldn’t bug him—that wouldn’t be cool, and Marin is—or as Santana might aver, was?—cool. In any event, our most renowned and revered local musician would easily give up a smile and a nod, and that was enough.

Now he lives mostly in Las Vegas. No, that’s not a misprint, and he went voluntarily, although he still keeps a very nice Tiburon home. After the breakup of his longtime marriage, he eventually landed a nice, regular gig in that desert resort town, and married a very talented drummer named Cindy Blackman. He continues to tour the world and draw massive crowds, releases new albums regularly, has restaurants and a shoe company and more, and is a serious philanthropist through his Milagro Foundation—still located in Marin and focused on child health, education and artistic growth.

Santana is also now an author with his new autobiography The Universal Tone: Bringing My Story to Light. At 500

pages, most any book risks becoming too long, especially in the dreaded self-indulgent genre known as “rock bio.” But Santana’s rags-to-glory story is so compelling, and his recall so impressive, that this one is wellworth any fan’s time and money. And sure enough he has recently drawn crowds to local appearances in Marin and San Francisco that were bigger and more diverse than any other “literary” event around.

“No other performer attracts bikers, former hippies, middle-class Hispanics, Chicanos, vatos, lovers of Latin jazz, blacks, curious white college students, whole families from babies to grandmothers,” wrote the late great Peter Warshall as editor of Marin’s late, lamented Whole Earth magazine. Previous biographies and interviews, including an extensive one I conducted with him in 1999, have outlined his path from birth in 1947 in a small town of Autlán de Navarro in central Mexico to selling gum on the streets of Tijuana as an adolescent to washing dishes in San Francisco’s Mission District as a teen.

While his band was still forming, he climbed onto the stage at the fabled Fillmore, wowing the crowd and promoter Bill Graham, and then, at 22 years of age, without even an album out yet, found explosive stardom in 1969 at the original Woodstock festival (where, as he confirms in his book, Jerry Garcia handed him a large dose of mescaline before Santana’s stage time). All along he was listening to all types of music, learning to play first violin and then guitar, dreaming of the big time, and 100 million albums and tickets sold, the rest is history—and now all in one firsthand place in his remarkable book.

The original Santana band, so named as it simply seemed the most likely name among the members, released three albums that “sprinkled a little chili pepper into rock,” as the New Yorker put it. The usual mix of money, drugs and ego broke them apart,

and Santana himself emerged as not just the name, but the face and most crucially, the lead guitarist of the group. His sound remains immediately recognizable as that of one of the few true living legends of rock, whose early hits retain their freshness and drive over four decades later. He’s won pretty much every music award worth winning, has been feted at the White House, has schools named after him, and much, much more.

But he’s still “proud to be a hippie,” prone to baffling interviewers with some of his pronouncements. “In some ways I think I was born tripping!” he reflects in his book. He writes candidly about many personal trials, from childhood poverty in a fractured family to sexual abuse and a very painful divorce. He also stresses that he has been a devoted family man, raising three children in Marin.

Through it all, he has remained very much a mix of streetwise Latino funk and cosmic guru, living to send his long-sustained guitar notes out into the world with a passionate wish to both entertain and enlighten. And as he concludes in his book, “I have never been happier in my life than at this moment.” ✹✹✹✹✹ So, welcome back home, as it were. What do you miss most about Marin—besides Sol Food, I mean?

[Laughs.] Oh, I think the sunrises and sunsets. Although those can be absolutely incredible out in the desert, too, you know.

But wherever I am, that’s where my heart is.

I don’t miss ... well, there are a lot of angry people in the Bay Area now. Just look at the traffic jams and the way people drive and all that. And in California they keep closing more schools, and building more prisons.

So I moved to Vegas, and I can’t tell you how much money that saves me a year, but I give that all away. I call that money “weapons of mass compassion.”

Well, I thank you for that! [Smiling.]

This is through your foundation?

And would you be bringing in more new, Yeah, and I’d rather give my money to international, say, African influences and where I want it to go than to the Pentagon, new musicians? or to Barack Obama. I like him still, but I Yes, and I’d love to work with Kenny don’t like that he hasn’t kept his promises, Garrett, Wayne or Herbie [Hancock] if they like to spend more for education and less on are available, and my wife—and I’d allow her incarceration, and to stop the wars. As much to bring in the bass player of her choice. And as I love him, that’s where I am. maybe some African musicians, too.

You and many others, I’m afraid. In your You started with the blues, and in fact book you go into many deeply personal your band was first called the Santana Blues stories—what were you trying to do by Band. writing it?

Yes, and we still There’s a new sneak the blues into chapter being our sound, you know. written in my There’s a new chapter Look, for me, Elvis life as we speak, being written in my was just the “King” a different kind life as we speak, a different of whatever—the of luminosity, real kings are people different kind of luminosity, different like B.B., Albert, and aspirations, aspirations, different goals.

Freddie King, and different goals. So T-Bone Walker and it was time. But So it was time. But mainly John Lee Hooker. mainly I needed I needed to share stories I Your recall and to share stories I learned to tell—from my memory in your book learned to tell— amazed me, with so from my dad, dad, Bill Graham, B.B. King— many names, places, Bill Graham, B.B. storytellers who can captivate events, from long ago.

King—storytellers you.

How did you do that? who can captivate I got that from you. A good my mom—she had musician must that kind of mind, be a supreme incredible detailed memory about things. storyteller, like Billie Holiday, Alice Coltrane, And I am hanging around Jerry and Diane John Lee Hooker. I always mention these names because I am them and they are me, as [Drs. Gerald Jampolsky and Diane Cirincione, noted Marin therapists and authors], and I I learned so much from them. And I took so have “celestial selective memory” now and I much from them, like I am taking now from Dolores Huerta and Harry Belafonte, who are only really remember the good. The bad, you have to say, “You know, I can try to remember my left and my right teachers right now, for it but I don’t have to and I don’t want to.” their values of equality, fairness and justice.

They are the Mahatma Gandhis of our day.

In this new phase of your life, are you planning to make less music, different music, or something else?

Some of all that. We are together with the original band for one thing—we’re finally making the album Santana IV! And I’ll be trying to do what I’ve long been longing to do, to make some new stuff that is elevating, transforming. Lately I’ve been really thinking of Alice Coltrane and Sonny Sharrock [a pioneering, hard-edged free-jazz guitarist], and I want to make music that I call “beautiful ugly.” Sharrock can sound like a hurricane or tornado, and I want to use that energy to take a photo of the other side, like Wayne Shorter does when he plays.

So, that sounds to me like it would be a less commercial approach than you’ve done in recent years, right?

Yeah, less radio-orientated, but that’s fine, it is time.

That reminds me of in your book where you write about when the first band was breaking up, you brought in new people and a new sound for the 1972 LP Caravanserai, and your management and even Bill Graham resisted that as being “career suicide.” But many of your fans, myself 12 > included, call that their favorite of your work.

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booed for saying, “People are afraid we’re going to steal your job. No we aren’t. You’re But in your book you included plenty of not going to change sheets and clean toilets. rough times, from your childhood onward ... I would invite all Latin people to do nothing Yeah—but that was about healing. My for about two weeks so you can see who publishers were great; they allowed me to tell really, really is running the economy.” the story without sensationalism, gossip and Yeah, well, I try to represent all the people dirt—I said, this is about taking the high road, the bigots and Republicans are trying to keep looking at the big picture. out. Look, I read somewhere that in some That is striking in the book—you tell of parts of the country more tortillas are sold so many people, some of whom it would than loaves of bread. Get used to it, man, I seem could have been painted in a bad way, don’t think we are going away! but most of it is positive.

You also said that “the highest thing one The rascal in me wanted to put a line at can do, whatever your position, is to inspire the end saying, “When you pick up this book people to aspire.” That is just beautiful. and go in the back pages to see where your Yes. Yes! And what does that mean? To a name is and it’s not there, I did you a favor!’” starving person, food is God. To an aspiring [Laughing.] person, who is not hungry for food anymore, When we spoke for an interview 15 years only God is the food, you’re not hungry for ago, you were working on the CD that was anything else, you just wanna eat God, to stay to become Supernatural and explode you in grace and luminosity. into the big world again, and you mentioned Let me challenge you a bit on one thing; a big secret you didn’t you’ve said, “If you want to come out just don’t believe in What I mean to say is that yet—your childhood God, you are free to sexual abuse. Then, believe in nothing, if you don’t have faith, or when you got all those but that’s what you’ll trust, then you’re just not awards and sales, get.” But so many gonna get far. And even if you told your story. seem to believe in I thought this was a their God out of fear, you do get there, you’re not brilliant way to do it, to out of hope for some gonna enjoy it. God is in a get that tough issue out reward. But what prostitute as much as in there when you were about those who already on the front don’t believe in God the Pope, or Dalai Lama, or pages everywhere. but still try to be Desmond Tutu—look who Yes, that was a healing, good, to do right for with a high purpose to Jesus hung out with—Mary others? it, to reveal something, Oh, you don’t [Magdalene]!

If you don’t bring to light the have to believe in believe that, you just have problem, and to invite G.O.D, some big guy those others who had in the sky you know. some issues. been violated in their For me God can be innocence to look in the called ... the highest mirror and say, “I am not what happened to good. Or even love. What I mean to say is that me, I am still as God created me with purity if you don’t have faith, or trust, then you’re and innocence. And I forgive that person.” just not gonna get far. And even if you do get In my case, I transfigurated that person into there, you’re not gonna enjoy it. God is in a a 7-year-old child in front of me and said, prostitute as much as in the Pope, or Dalai “I forgive you, and will not send you to hell, Lama, or Desmond Tutu—look who Jesus because if I do that, I will go with you. So I hung out with—Mary [Magdalene]! If you will send you into the light instead, so I can be don’t believe that, you just have some issues. free.” And it worked.

Well I think the world’s negativity And did you hear from others with can be overwhelming, too. There is so similar experiences, to thank you for that? much suffering out there. Do you read Oh yes. When I said that first in Rolling newspapers? One hundred and fifty years Stone, they were flooded with people who ago, Emerson said that doing so was were saying things like, “Man, that was me, “bathing in blood.” too.” And at the same time all this stuff came Whoa! No, I don’t read them, never. But out—people saying they had been abused you know, all that stuff is not real. There are by priests, you know, and it just went global. a lot of different forms of unrealness. The So you know, we have the power, like John only thing that is real is love. As hard as it Coltrane said, one positive thought can may seem for our mind to realize, what God create millions of positive vibrations. Don’t created cannot be altered or changed, it can underestimate the power of consciousness, only be by personal choice created into your how vast it can be in helping people to own little evolution, because we are only light recognize their own light. and love and nothing else. All that suffering You’ve spoken out a fair bit about the can be wiped out, when we reach a point on plight of illegal immigrants, especially this earth when we collectively awaken to our Mexicans like yourself. This is such a hot own light ... [pauses]. Look, this is something I issue, especially now. A few years ago at need to say, a highest salutation that I learned a Major League Baseball game you were from J.J. Hurtak in Los Gatos, who wrote

10 n Miles Davis—Sketches of Spain n John Coltrane— A Love Supreme n Bob Marley and the Wailers—Exodus n Marvin Gaye—What’s Going On n Jimi Hendrix—”Any of his first three LPs,”

Santana says. “Don’t make me choose!” n Salif Keita—Soro n Aretha Franklin—Lady Soul n Miles Davis—Kind of Blue n Miles Davis—Bitches Brew n Miles Davis—On the Corner n “And, could I maybe add ’Supernatural‘

in there?”

The Book of Knowledge: The Keys of Enoch.

He says, “May the heavens open up, and the angels bless each and every one with the deep awareness of your own light.” Once you see that is possible, everything else is like film, like in the old days, when you take it out of the can and put it into the light, it disappears.

All the bad stories and suffering on this earth can be like that, as incredible as it may seem.

Everything else is E. G. O.-created—Edging God Out—which is impossible, but we live by it every day, promoting fear.

I might also challenge you on the “suffering is not real” thing, but we don’t have the space and time here for a deep debate. I’m also not going to ask you about your divorce, as you expressed all that movingly in your book and the Pacific Sun

is not the National Enquirer anyway. People can get the book to read about all that, right?

[Laughing.] Well, thanks!

Finally, you’ve recommended that we change our national anthem from that “bombs bursting in air” song—which you’ve played to open a Giants World Series game!—to Billie Holiday’s “God Bless the Child” or Louis Armstrong’s “What a Wonderful World.”

Yes. I just don’t like to celebrate bombs and fear, you know. And I don’t think there is any country in this world that promotes fear like the United States. And really, where has that gotten us? Y Ask Steve about Santana's favorite Sol Food dish at letters@pacificsun.com.

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Cheers to the New Year!

Celebrate 2015 with foodie awards and a new pizza joint

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on Thursday, Jan. 8, where you can toast the 2015 winners (with winning brews and spirits).

Patxi’s Pizza is coming to the Bon Air Center in Greenbrae! Co-founders Francisco “Patxi” Azpiroz and William Freeman will be opening their doors in May to their first Marin location for the popular chain. Patxi’s Pizza is best known for its signature deep-dish pizza baked in a traditional, slow-rotating oven. They also have the best gluten-free pizzas I have ever tasted. Thin, Italian-style pizzas will be on the menu along with salads and appetizers. Even a daily vegan pie will be available. Y Share your hunger pains with Tanya at thenry@pacificsun.com.

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ooking for a few tasty ways to start off 2015? Here are some bright and cheery ideas. Happy New Year!

Here is something to get on your calendars for next year. With over 300 specialty food producers in the North Bay alone, it is likely that one or two might pick up an award at the upcoming Good Food Awards on Thursday, Jan. 8.

Now in its fifth year, the event will feature a presentation of awards to 146 producers from 33 states who will be showcasing their winning cheeses, chocolates, coffees, preserves and much more at the Good Food Awards Marketplace in the San Francisco Ferry Building. Sample the winning products on Saturday, Jan. 10 from 9am-2pm at the San Francisco Ferry Building. The cost is $5. For more information and celebrations, visit www.goodfoodawards. org. For the serious foodies out there, limited tickets are also available ($120) to the Good Food Awards Ceremony

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FRIDAY, JAN. 2 X-Men Origins: Wolverine It turns out his super powers do not include carrying a movie on his own. (2009) FX. 8pm.

Al Capone: Icon A local businessman learns the value of proper tax accounting and following federal regulations. KQED. 9pm.

The Tonight Show Michael Cera continues his “No, I’m Not Jesse Eisenberg” tour. NBC. 11:35pm.

SATURDAY, JAN. 3 The Beach Leonardo DiCaprio plays a free-spirited traveler who stumbles on an idyllic beach where a community of likeminded bohemians live a carefree existence amid a scene of tropical splendor.

But his wireless provider’s coverage is spotty so he goes home. (2000) Sundance Channel. 7pm.

Network Ranting television news personalities raising hysteria about the decline of the nation used to be fiction. (1976) KQED. 8pm.

traps while dreaming you may one day have enough money to retire? Sounds like the new middle class to us. History Channel.

6pm.

Alien: Resurrection In the fourth film, Sigourney Weaver’s Ripley character is reborn as a clone with alien DNA, which gives her super strength, increased healing capacity and the ability to speak the dialogue with a straight face. (1997) Starz.

7:05pm.

Marvel’s Agent Carter Captain America’s girlfriend from World War II takes on secret missions for Iron Man’s dad. So it’s a super hero show, but she doesn’t have any super powers, unless you count being a woman in the ‘40s who A film that finally dissects the depth of is allowed to do anything mother-daughter relationships if we’ve interesting. ABC. 8pm. ever seen them ...

SUNDAY, JAN. 4 Galavant If medieval musical romantic comedies take off, does that mean we’ll all be wearing tights and tunics next fall? ABC. 8pm.

16 and Pregnant: Where Are They Now? We’re going to go with shopping at Walmart? MTV. 8pm.

Celebrity Apprentice Geraldo Rivera courting the approval of Donald Trump is practically an infomercial for cutting cable and going full Netflix. CBS. 9pm.

WEDNESDAY, JAN. 7 People’s Choice Awards Nobody ever asked us? Who are these “people”? Maybe they should change it to “Some People’s Choice.” CBS. 9pm.

My Strange Addiction Apparently there are men who wear rubber masks and dress up like Barbie dolls. What could be creepier than that? Going on TV to talk about wearing rubber masks and dressing up like Barbie dolls. The Learning Channel. 10pm.

Remote Control War These are drones— not you and your roommate fighting over which lame reality show to watch. KQED. 11pm.

MONDAY, JAN. 5 The Bachelor The new THURSDAY, JAN. 8 Enchanted A bachelor is a businessman and farmer storybook princess is magically transported from Iowa, which means the “winner” gets to modern day Manhattan. We haven’t seen to move to Iowa and live on a farm. We’d Manhattan look this much like a fairytale advise bad makeup and a faked speech since the first season of Sex and the City. impediment. ABC. 8pm.

(2007) E! 8pm.

Branson Famous Party Down South This Being famous in a is basically Jersey Shore town where Boxcar with humidity and Willie is a headliner different accents. CMT. is like being the 9pm. employee of the Expedition Unknown: month in a prison Amelia Earhart They chain gang. TruTV. can’t find a Malaysian 9:30pm. airlines Boeing 777 that Booze Traveler In crashed eight months this series, the host travels the world to try On Wednesday’s we wear pink ... and have perfect ago, but they solve the complexions. disappearance of a cocktails and brews single-engine crop duster from 1937? Travel in exotic locales. In our family, we call that Channel. 9pm. “traveling.” Travel Channel. 10pm.

Mean Girls Lindsay Lohan plays the new TUESDAY, JAN. 6 The Curse of Oak Island girl in school who gets lured into the orbit of three high school beauties with cold hearts A pair of brothers search for a legendary and great complexions, like sharks but with treasure off the coast of Nova Scotia on cellphones and credit cards. (2004) Comedy an island rumored to be booby-trapped.

Central. 9pm.

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for Humanity build in Zambia, Africa.

Years later, the pair launched their own farm in Northfield, Minnesota. Back on the farm, Elizabeth is referred to as Bossy E and Karla is called Bossy K, so that’s how I will refer to them here, too.

“Winter in Minnesota is notorious for wearing optimists down to a brittle nub,” writes Bossy E. The cure?

As the snow buries the cars outside, and the rain keeps the soil too wet to work, get in that kitchen and start growing wave after wave of microgreens, pea shoots, radishes and other tasty vegetables.

The Bossy broads thought that this Author Elizabeth Millard, or ‘Bossy E,’ doing some outdoors farming. would be impossible at first and would reey, all you bossy gardeners! I’ve quire an extensive and got the perfect book for you. costly growing system. But, the simple Elizabeth Millard, co-owner of growing experiments that Bossy K and Bossy Acres, a Community-Supported Bossy E performed in their own kitchen Agriculture (CSA) farm in Minnesota, has one long, Midwest winter was a success! written a book about growing Next came more experifood indoors. In Indoor Kitchen mentation and documentGardening: Turn Your Home ing what worked and what into a Year-Round Vegetable failed. If they can grow Garden (Cool Springs Press, food indoors, in winter, June 2014), Millard writes, “Alin Minnesota, one should though my great-grandparents be able to grow anywhere, and grandparents were farmers, I grew up especially here in California, with our in the suburbs ... I’d never imagined I’d be mostly glorious weather-for-wimps. spending any time digging, weeding, or The book is broken into three highly talking compost. The concept of growing informative and enjoyable sections: food was about as foreign to me as algebra 1. Growing Edibles Indoors, 2. Micro(which I also believed I’d never use).” Mil- greens, Shoots, Herbs, Wheatgrass, lard confesses that she got into gardening Sprouts, and Mushrooms and, 3. Radby “dating her way into it.” She met her ishes, Carrots, Tomatoes, and Other partner, Karla Pankow, during a Habitat Crops. Each section is then broken into

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more specific chapters. There is even a chapter on Attitude!

Yes, I’m talking to you! If you’re going to grow plants indoors or outdoors you are going to fail. Again. And again. And then some more. That’s part of the fun. You are a mad scientist performing science experiments. Sometimes nature works with you and sometimes Mother Nature will bring you to tears. As Bossy E writes, “When I first started indoor edible gardening, I’d say my approach was definitely more Eeyore than Pooh, but over time, I gradually took on a more light-hearted attitude. After all this is supposed to be fun, right?” Fun is very possible. Especially if you start out right with the correct soil/growing medium, have proper sunlight and water consistently. Then you will succeed and we can clap for you and crown you with the Bossy title before your first initial!

Lighting is always the first question the author gets when talking about indoor growing. She promises that you don’t need fancy grow lights. If you have south-facing windows, this could be ideal as long as it doesn’t get too hot during the hottest part of day. “When selecting a site for growing, look for one that allows for natural light, but can also be shaded in some way.” If you don’t have a nice sunny window, Bossy E recommends full-spectrum fluorescent bulbs; the ones you see in boring office buildings, sometimes called shop lights at the hardware store. Even better is to find one that has hanging chains for easy lowering and raising. If you have a bigger budget she recommends High Intensity Discharge (HID) bulbs or Light-Emitting Diode (LED) bulbs. “A plant’s response to light is vitally important for growth, seed germination, and vegetable or fruit formation,” warns the author. “So, no matter what type of light source you’re using, be sure to turn it off at night so the plants get their rest.”

After you figure out your lighting, choosing your growing medium is next.

Bossy E’s Best Indoor Blend is recommended in the book. This consists of indoor potting soil or compost mix and vermiculite. This helps with drainage,

which is critical to happy seed sprouting.

I shuffled straight over to the microgreens chapter because I am still an impatient ex-New Yorker at heart, and I heard they grow fast; harvesting them in only one to two weeks. She refers to them as “the new kids on the block!” Kale had its 15 minutes. Now it’s microgreens. “Their cute size, mule-kick-level flavor, and nutritional clout make them a perfect addition to any indoor growing mix. Also, when kept in glass containers in the refrigerator, micros can last for up to two weeks, and still maintain their punch.” The author recommends microgreens as the first crop to grow indoors for novice gardeners. Most are tastiest when they are 1-2 inches tall and have sprouted a second set of leaves.

And now, back to kale. It always comes back to kale. Bossy E says we can even grow kale in our kitchen. (Like we don’t have enough of it in our raised beds? I say, “Never enough kale!”) Some smaller varieties she suggests that offer plenty of texture and color are Dwarf Blue Curled, Red Russian, and Lacinato. The best time of year to try these indoors is late spring or early fall, or else growth can be spindly and germination sluggish. But don’t you worry—Bossy E is with you every step of the way. Just about every chapter has a troubleshooting guide at the end listing the most common problems and how to solve them. Try, try again until you succeed. Then you can get back on your feet, feeling like a winning, veteran gardener, and get back to being your bossy self.

Craving some Bossy Acres swag? Visit: www.bossyacres.com/bossy-gear. Y Send bossy swag to Annie at annie@dirtdiva.com.

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›› TALKiNG PiCTURES

God save the king The Drunk Ex-Pastors talk Christianity, cocktails and ‘Exodus’

by David Te mp l e ton

So Tom Buchanan and Batman walk into a palace ...

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t’s too early to drink a regular cocktail,” announces Christian Kingery, a big, ice-tinkling glass in one hand, “so we’ve been drinking screwdrivers instead. We’re going to record an episode of our podcast right after we talk about the movie, so we thought we should go ahead and just start drinking now.”

It’s shortly before one o’clock on Christmas Eve and with a little help from the good people behind Skype, the Drunk Ex-Pastors are ready for action.

Co-hosts of a popular weekly podcast titled, yes, Drunk Ex-Pastors (www. drunkexpastors.com), Christian Kingery and Jason Stellman are indeed former Evangelical pastors, both having served as missionaries in Hungary many years ago, before rethinking their relationship to the divine and taking other, somewhat divergent paths. Stellman is now a practicing Catholic, while Kingery—ironically enough for a guy named Christian—identifies as an agnostic.

Both live outside of Seattle, Washington, where every week, drinks in hand, the longtime friends engage in an hour or so of lively conversation, tackling everything from the state of American culture and politics, to the complexities of faith and religion—and whatever their many fans suggest through emails and phone messages.

And biebers.

The Drunk Ex-Pastors are particularly fond of discussing “biebers,” Kingery and 16 PACIFIC SUN JANUARY 2 - JANUARY 8, 2015

Stellman’s word for anything small and insignificant that really annoys them, such as big-budget Hollywood movies based on stories from the Bible.

Which leads us to the present moment, as we prepare to discuss Ridley Scott’s Exodus: Gods and Kings. Inspired by the famous Old Testament tale of Moses (Christian Bale), the special-effects-heavy epic traces the Hebrew leader’s evolution from Egyptian prince and surrogate son to the Pharaoh (John Turturro) to liberator of the Hebrew slaves—but throws in a few surprises, many of which have drawn criticism from members of the religious right.

“I was much more entertained by Exodus: Gods and Kings, and much less biebered by it, than I expected,” begins Kingery. “The use of special effects was relatively tasteful. Not too overdone. But there were definitely things about the movie that bugged me. It was weird seeing Batman playing Moses, and Knish from Rounders as the Pharaoh, and Ripley from Alien playing Ramses’ mom.

“I think Christian Bale actually did a pretty good job,” he adds. “The guy they cast as Ramses—the guy from The Great Gatsby, right?—I thought he was very good.”

“What always cracks me up,” Stellman says, “is how Hollywood does all these period pieces, and it doesn’t matter what era or epoch it’s happening in, if they put in a bunch of people with English accents, it will seem legit. Greeks, Romans, Egyp-

tians, Persians—they must all have English gotten Ramses to release the slaves, and accents! Except Moses, evidently. For MoMoses reminds God that it’s already taken ses, they cast an English guy and made him him 400 years to do anything, so he should speak with an American accent!” be patient, and God and Moses go at it for “In this one, even God has an English a while. accent,” I point out. “But then he’s also “A lot of people think it’s wrong to portrayed as a pissed-off 10-year-old boy question God,” he goes on, “but I actually who only Moses can see.” think there’s something wrong with you if The depiction of God, in fact, may be you never question God and his choices. A the most interesting thing about Gods and listener wrote in and said that they never Kings, aside from its suggestion that an question God, about anything. And we army of man-eating crocodiles might have were reflecting on that in our last podcast, been the root cause of the 10 Plagues of saying that we think we’re maybe supposed Egypt. to question God. We’re supposed to read You have to see it to believe it, but it’s the Bible and come away at times thinkpretty awesome. ing, ‘What the hell is up God’s ass?’ What “I think that was interesting, the thing is wrong with him? Did he get up on the about Moses fighting with this 10-year-old wrong side of the bed or what? Why does God all the time,” Kingery says. “In the God act the way he acts? Out of those conBible, if you read beyond the Exodus story, versations and questions come some pretty there is a lot of tension between God and important discoveries about the nature of Moses. I was wondering if Ridley Scott God and the world and how we should read all of that, and used it as a template for behave in it.” his version of God. Isn’t there a part, Jason, “Yeah,” Kingery agrees, “and that’s part where God wants to destroy the people and of why I didn’t have a problem with God start over, and Moses talks him out of it?” being portrayed as a 10-year-old. It was “Oh yeah, there is, definitely,” Stellman cool not to have the same old burning bush says, “and there’s also the whole thing thing—though there is a burning bush at about Moses not being allowed to enter one point—and anyway, it’s just one artist’s Canaan after they’ve been wandering in the interpretation.” desert for 40 years. God was mad at Moses “And it captures something essential for getting angry and smiting the rock.” about God that casting someone like MorAbout that. gan Freeman would have missed,” Stellman In the book of Exodus, when the people says, “which is that, you can’t deny it, God are about to rebel because they are dying sometimes behaves in ways that look irof thirst, God tells Moses to hit a big rock rational to us.” with his staff, and when Moses obeys, God “When Moses asks God, ‘Dude! What makes water gush out of the rock, and are you thinking?’” I mention, “he’s actually everyone is saved. Years later, in the book speaking for humanity.” of Numbers, when the same situation is “Moses was the good cop,” Stellman happening, God tells Moses to speak to a says, “and God is the bad cop. Like Riggs rock and command it to produce water, but and Murtaugh from Lethal Weapon. Mel Moses—tired of having to bail the people Gibson was unbalanced and unpredictout over and over—just hits the rock with able. And if any believer in Jesus or God his stick again. The rock gives water, but is honest, when you read the Bible—espebecause Moses disobeyed God, he was not cially the Old Testament—that is how God allowed to cross over into the Promised comes across.

Land once they finally found it.

“He can be a bit impetuous,” he says with “Thanks a lot, God,” Kingery says. “I did a laugh, as the Drunk Ex-Pastors each pour all of this work for you, gave up being a another drink. “The question is, ‘How do prince of Egypt, and because I got conwe deal with that?’” Y fused one time and hit the rock instead of talking to the rock, I can’t go to the PromAsk David if he considers himself more of a god or a king at talkpix@earthlink.net. ised Land?”

“Hey, 10-year-olds, they are hard to predict,” Stellman says.

“Regarding that choice, the idea of portraying God as a child,” Stellman says, “I can see how fundamentalists would be upset about that, and see that as some sort of dig at them, and at God. Which, it kind of is. But it shows Moses questioning God, challenging In an interview with ‘The New York Times,’ director Ridley Scott said that being an him. God says he’s atheist was beneficial for directing a Biblical story “because I’ve got to convince unhappy Moses hasn’t myself the story works.”

MOViES

F R I D AY J A N U A R Y 2 — T H U R S D AY J A N U A R Y 8 Movie summaries by M at t hew St af fo r d

Due to this week’s exceptionally early holiday deadline, movie showtimes were unavailable as we went to press. Please visit cinemark.com or fandango.com for schedule updates. l Annie (1:59) Remake of the Strouse-Charnin musical comic strip stars Quevenzhané Wallis as the plucky li’l orphan and Jamie Foxx as a modern-day Daddy Warbucks. l Antarctica: A Year on Ice (1:31) Dazzling documentary focuses on the world’s most brutal continent and the scientists and researchers who call it home. l Awake: The Life of Yogananda (1:27) Biodoc of Paramahansa Yogananda, the Indian yogi who brought meditation and yoga to the West in the 1920s; Krishna Das and Deepak Chopra share insights. l The Babadook (1:34) Atmospheric Australian chiller about a spooky storybook creature that invades the home of a single mom and her hyperactive son. l Big Eyes (1:46) Tim Burton biopic of Margaret Keane, the artist whose paintings of big-eyed waifs made her husband rich and famous; Amy Adams and Christoph Waltz star. l Big Hero 6 (1:30) Disney cartoon concerns a boy, his posse and their repurposed crime-fighting robot, but the real star is a dazzlingly reimagined mashup of Tokyo and San Francisco complete with skateboarding geishas and a torii-turreted Golden Gate Bridge. l Birdman (1:59) Offbeat comedy from 21 Grams director Alejandro González Iñárritu about a onetime movie superhero (Michael Keaton) trying to get himself some thespian cred by starring in a Broadway play. l Citizenfour (1:54) Documentary follows investigative filmmaker Laura Poitras across the globe in search of budding whistleblower Edward Snowden. l Downton Abbey Tea Party (2:00) The Lark invites you to kick off the fifth season of Masterpiece Theatre’s acclaimed soap opera with a positively scone-y tea party followed by the season premiere on the beautiful big screen. Prize for best Downtonesque costume! l Exodus: Gods and Kings (2:30) Christian Bale is Moses in Ridley Scott’s epic retelling of the flight from Egypt; Ben Kingsley and Sigourney Weaver co-star. l Foxcatcher (2:10) True story of Olympic wrestlers Mark and Dave Schultz (Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo) and their edgy, intense relationship with their deeply obsessed heir-to-a-fortune sponsor, John du Pont (Steve Carell). l The Gambler (1:41) Remake of Karel Reisz’s 1974 drama stars Mark Wahlberg as an English professor whose gambling addiction pulls him to the lower depths; Jessica Lange co-stars. l The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (2:25) The trilogy’s final chapter finds Bilbo and company taking on scary, spooky challenges of all sorts as they defend Middle-earth one last time. l Horrible Bosses 2 (1:48) When their brand-new business is hijacked by smooth operator Christoph Waltz, working stiffs Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day kidnap son Chris Pine in retaliation; Jennifer Aniston, Kevin Spacey and Jamie Foxx add to the hilarity. l The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 1 (2:05) Jennifer Lawrence is back as Games top dawg Katniss Everdeen, leading the charge against her nation’s wicked past; Julianne Moore co-stars. l The Imitation Game (1:53) Benedict Cumberbatch as ace cryptologist Alan Turing, leader of Britain’s top code-breakers, who raced against time to crack the Nazis’ Enigma Code during World War II. l Interstellar (2:49) Spacey Christopher Nolan sci-fi drama follows a troupe of hungry astronauts through a newly discovered wormhole to the far reaches of the galaxy; Anne Hathaway, Michael Caine and Matthew McConaughey are among the crew.

l The Interview (1:52) Goofball Seth Rogen adventure comedy about two doofus TV producers who are recruited by the CIA to assassinate North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un. l Into the Woods (2:05) Stephen Sondheim’s twisted musical fairytale gets the Disney treatment; Rob Marshall directs Meryl Streep, Johnny Depp and Chris Pine. l It Happened One Night (1:45) Breezy Capra screwball comedy about a runaway heiress who hits the road with a wisecracking newspaperman; Claudette Colbert and Clark Gable star. l Monk with a Camera (1:30) Documentary examines the life of Nicholas Vreeland, a son of privilege and accomplished photographer who gave it all up to become a Buddhist monk. l National Gallery (3:03) Disquisitive Frederick Wiseman documentary looks behind the scenes at London’s premier museum and its Titians, Turners and da Vincis. l Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb (1:37) Ben Stiller and his reanimated pals are back and circling the globe in search of ever more magic; Mickey Rooney, Robin Williams and Dick Van Dyke star. l The Penguins of Madagascar (1:32) Cartoon caper comedy about a waddle of penguin superspies on a mission to save the world from John Malkovich. l St. Vincent (1:42) Unwitting single mom Melissa McCarthy leaves her 12-year-old son in the questionable day-care of neighbor Bill Murray, who mentors the kid in the art and science of playing the horses, tipping the strippers and shooting the whiskey. l States of Grace (1:15) Documentary follows Dr. Grace Dammann on her long road to renewal after a head-on collision on the Golden Gate Bridge leaves her mind intact and her body shattered. l Sundance Animated Shorts (1:35) Catch eight acclaimed cartoons from the U.S., Canada and Europe ranging in style and subject matter from hand-drawn to puppetry and young love to the meaning of life. l Sundance Live Action Shorts (1:34) Eight short subjects from last year’s fest make up a cinematic smorgasbord of comedies, documentaries and dramas from around the globe. l The Theory of Everything (2:03) Biopic focuses on the young and healthy yet degenerating Stephen Hawking (Eddie Redmayne) as he woos his future wife (Felicity Jones) and races against time to break new ground in physics and medicine. l Top Five (1:42) Chris Rock writes, directs and stars in an edgy, critically acclaimed look at a comedianturned-movie star grappling with his past. l Unbroken (2:17) Gripping true story of three WWII soldiers who survived a plane crash, 47 days on a raft and brutality in a Japanese prison camp; Angelina Jolie directs Ethan and Joel Coen’s screenplay. l Viva La Liberta (1:34) Acerbic Italian comedy about a dull public servant whose political campaign is energized when he’s secretly replaced by his erudite, philosophical, possibly insane twin brother. l Wild (1:55) True tale of a spiraling young woman’s thousand-mile trek along the Pacific Crest Trail in search of strength and healing; Reese Witherspoon stars. l The Woman in Black (1:38) Spookfest about a group of London Blitz refugees threatened by an evil force in a creepy old mansion. l Zero Motivation (1:40) Dark comedy about an allfemale unit of bored Israeli soldiers stuck in a remote desert outpost.

››MARiN UNCOVERED

Hands-on holiday ritual A Swedish sausage-making tradition that dates back 100 years

by Jo anne Williams

A few generations getting in on the family tradition.

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n a chilly Sunday morning two weeks before Christmas, the Magnuson family swept into Larkspur from all over the West—Auburn, Danville, Sonoma and Seattle —50 people of all ages (including twins due next year) gathered for the annual tribute to their Swedish ancestors: making sausage.

This holiday ritual is hands-on for sure.

On the deck, in front of the covered pool and a towering redwood family of three huge trees, a copper caldron sat on its handmade pedestal waiting for the eight hands that would soon smash together ground pork (60 percent from a family member’s organic farm in Auburn), bowls of chopped (not grated) onions and organic ground beef (40 percent). Standing over the big round pot was Herb Magnuson, dean of the family, whose sausage-making tradition started 75 years ago. His job was to add the black pepper, a shake at a time.

“I think it should have salt as well, but some people don’t agree,” Magnuson said with another shake of pepper. “There’s a disagreement on the original recipe, which came down from my Swedish great-grandmother. It goes back at least 100 years.”

The Magnuson family ventured from Sweden during a potato famine, first to Minnesota, then Seattle, then California, making their fortune in lumber, paint and trade with Asia.

The day-long ritual continued as people came and went, plunging their hands into the mix, notwithstanding a crisis: A crucial ingredient, the sausage casings, had been left behind in Danville. “It’s OK, my wife went back for them, they’ll be here in two hours,” said self-appointed

“vice-meister” Dave DeVoe, married to a Magnuson. DeVoe rescued the copper pot from the Ghirardelli chocolate factory years back.

“Paid a hundred bucks for it,” he said.

“They had another one I should have bought. Held melted chocolate. You see it’s round, there are no seams for the meat to get caught in.”

Family members started coming by the car-full, unloading delicacies for lunch—crab dip, spinach dip, hummus, Swedish bread, ham, potato salad, cakes and cookies. “We’re going to have lunch before we start stuffing the sausage. Anyway the casings aren’t here yet,” Magnuson said.

After the sausage is stuffed into casings with the help of a gadget made for the purpose, it gets tied off in two-foot lengths with a toothpick. Then it hangs in a room-temperature environment for the two weeks before Christmas day, when it’s sliced and boiled or fried for breakfast.

“Sometimes there’s mold on the casings,” Magnuson pointed out, “and we wash that off before cooking it.”

By Christmas morning the hanging sausages have shrunk by a third, but with 50 to 75 pounds for the clan, there’s plenty for New Year’s day and till next year.

And the sausage is no stranger to international travel. Magnuson’s son Eric carried sausage to Venice, Italy, for a family vacation last year. And once, a very moldy link arrived to the Galapagos Islands, where a cousin enjoyed the rarity several weeks past the holiday.

The day didn’t end with the stuffing business. Santa paid a visit to the children, the gang sang carols and moved on to Eric Magnuson’s house in Larkspur for clam chowder. And if you’re in Larkspur, note the yogurt shop on Magnolia called Mags—Herb’s son, Elliott, is the owner.

Herb lives at The Redwoods retirement community in Mill Valley, and is soon off to Squaw Valley. The family skis together, too.Y Link up with Joanne at letters@pacificsun.com.

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F R I D AY J A N U A R Y 2 — F R I D AY J A N U A R Y 9 Pacific Sun‘s Community Calendar

Highlights from our online community calendar— great things to do this weekend in Marin.

Check out our Online Community Calendar for more listings, spanning more weeks, with more event information »pacificsun.com/calendar

Live music

01/02: Rebecca Mimiaga Singer/songwriter. 8pm.

01/02: The Big Jangle Tom Petty covers. With Paul Cotruvo, Kiki Stack, Dan Hertlein, Kevin Scott Kroner, Bruce Brophy and Kelly Pine. 8pm. $10-12. Fenix, 919 Fourth St., San Rafael. 813-5600. fenixlive.com.

01/02: Danilo and Orquesta Universal Latin.

8pm. George’s Nightclub, Fourth St., San Rafael.

578-2707. www.georgesnightclub.com 01/02: Eli and Javi’s Gypsy Jazz 9:30pm. The Sleeping Lady, 23 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax. 485-1182. sleepingladyfairfax.com.

01/02: Meredith Axelrod and the Get Happy String Band 8:30pm-12:30am. $8. Smi-

ley’s Schooner Saloon, 41 Wharf Road, Bolinas. 8681311. smileyssaloon.com.

01/02: Michael LaMacchia Trio Jazz, rock.

6:30pm. No cover. Terrapin Crossroads, 100 Yacht Club Dr., San Rafael. 524-2773. terrapincrossroads.net.

01/02-03: Phil Lesh and Friends 8pm. $79.

Terrapin Crossroads, 100 Yacht Club Dr., San Rafael.

524-2773. terrapincrossroads.net.

$15-17. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley. 388-1100. swmh.com.

01/02: Ross James Radio Galaxy 9pm. No cover.

Terrapin Crossroads, 100 Yacht Club Dr., San Rafael.

524-2773. terrapincrossroads.net.

01/02: Stompy Jones Swing, jump. 8pm. $12-15. Rancho Nicasio, 1Old Rancheria Road, Nicasio. 662-2219. ranchonicasio.com.

01/02: Tommy Odetto and Friends Blues rock.

9:30pm. $8. Peri’s Silver Dollar, 29 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax. 459-9910. www.perisbar.com.

01/02: Void Where Prohibited 8pm. $10. Sausalito Seahorse, 305 Harbor Dr., Sausalito. sausalitoseahorse.com.

01/03: Andre Thierry and Zydeco Magic

Zydeco/ French Creole. 8pm. $12-15. Fenix Supper Club, 919 Fourth St., San Rafael. 813-5600. fenixlive.com.

01/03: The Brothers Comatose Quiles and Cloud opens. 9pm. $17-19. Sweetwater Music Hall, 19 Corte Madera Ave, Mill Valley. 388-1100. swmh.com.

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A great year for movies and a tough one to narrow down to top ten.

Herewith a list that neglects some terrific and widely-acclaimed DVD releases (Nebraska and Philomena) for idiosyncratic personal faves (like Only Lovers Left Alive). In no particular order they are: • GRAVITY: Alfonso Cuaron sticks to his science and turns all filmThe first season of ‘True Detective’ was shot entirely on film. making on its head. My eyes will never be the same.

• THE WOLF OF WALL STREET: Reviewers labeled it a case of Scorsese self-indulgence and overkill. But the film has an iron backbone, capturing the not-socheap thrills and venality of the late ‘80s.

• FROZEN: Landmark animation and a classic score are nothing new at castle Disney, but the feminist story here represents nothing less than a palace coup. Our daughters are the better for it.

• THE PAST: Asghar Farhadi’s searing divorce drama set in a Paris suburb unravels a riddle at the heart of an Iranian expat family’s life. Don’t miss this film.

• TRUE DETECTIVE: Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson chew up Louisiana scenery in this haunting HBO mystery series, not for the squeamish.

• BEARS: John C. Reilly narrates an Alaska wildlife docu whose ample heart is backed by groundbreaking camera technology. Kids will savor every den moment, grizzly battle and flying salmon.

• ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE: Vampires Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston set up their bohemian world behind doors in Tangiers and suburban Detroit. Jim Jarmusch shows that with the right music, it’s a kind of heaven.

• LOCKE: Tom Hardy never leaves his car. You. Will. Not. Breathe.

• INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS: The Coens turn their pitiless eye to the Folk Movement just before the Folk Movement, a Greenwich Village underworld teeming with lyrical beauty and hypocrisy, callowness and unsavory characters like John Goodman.

• ALL IS LOST: Bad luck casts Robert Redford adrift on a damaged yacht in the Indian Ocean, with nothing but his old man wits to save him. A nail-biter told with Bressonian economy.

[And the last goes to the magisterial 550-page Werner Herzog: A Guide for the Perplexed, a book-length interview with Paul Cronin summing up Herzog’s career and murderous philosophy—an incitement to dangerous living.]— Richard Gould 01/03: The Doc Kraft Dance Band Rock, zydeco,

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blues. 8:30pm. $10. Seahorse Bar, 305 Harbor Dr. Gate 5 , Sausalito. 601-7858. www.dockraft.com.

01/03: The English Beat Rusty Zinn Band opens.

8:30pm. $31-36. Mystic Theatre, 21 Petaluma Blvd.

North, Petaluma. 707/765-2121. mystictheatre.com.

01/03: Petty Theft 8pm. Napa Valley Opera House, 1030 Main St., Napa. 707/260-1600. citywinery.com 01/03: Pop Fiction Pop, jam rock. 9pm. $15.

Hopmonk, 224 Vintage Way, Novato. 892-6200. hopmonk.com/novato.

01/03: Ron Thompson and the Resistors

R&B, rock, blues. 8pm.$12-15. Rancho Nicasio,1Old RancheriaRoad, Nicasio.662-2219. ranchonicasio.com.

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ing Lady, 23 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax. 485-1182. sleepingladyfairfax.com.

01/03: Sucker MCs Rock. 9:30pm. $8. Peri’s Silver Dollar, 29 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax. 459-9910. perisbar.com.

01/03: Zan Stewart 6:30pm. No cover. Terrapin Crossroads, 100 Yacht Club Dr., San Rafael. 524-2773. terrapincrossroads.net.

01/04: Joe Baer Magnant Group Jazz quartet.

6pm. No cover. Panama Hotel and Restaurant, 4 Bayview St., San Rafael. www.panamahotel.com.

01/04: Kindred 8pm. No cover. Peri’s Silver Dollar, 29 Broadway Blvd, Fairfax. 459-9910. perisbar.com.

01/04: Midnight North 7:30pm. No cover. Terrapin Crossroads, 100 Yacht Club Dr., San Rafael. 5242773. terrapincrossroads.net.

01/04: The Shots Irish, old-timey, Americana.

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01/08: Mort Sahl: Social Satire Provocative humor and engaging conversation. 7pm. Free.

Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 383-9600. 142throckmortontheatre.org.

Concerts Fri 1/2 • Doors 7pm • ADV $15/DOS $17

01/07: Noontime Concerts: Elisabeth Zosseder Harp. Noon. Free. 142 Throckmorton Thea-

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01/11: Eos Ensemble “Piano Quartets Through Time.” Works by Brahms, Turina and Mozart. Craig Reiss, violin; Caroline Lee, viola; Thalia Moore, cello; Marilyn Thompson, piano.

8pm. $15-20. 142 Throckmorton Theatre, 142 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley. 383-9600. throckmortontheatre.org.

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feat Jacob Groopman from Front Country & David Gans : Grateful Dead Done Differently!

Thu 1/8 • Doors 7pm • ADV $17 / DOS $20

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Fri 1/9 • Doors 8pm • ADV $20 / DOS $22

01/10-11: Love2Dance Ensemble 4pm Jan.

Doobie Decibel System feat Jason Crosby & Roger McNamee

10; 11am 1 and 3pm Jan 11. Veterans Memorial Auditorium and Showcase Theatre, 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael. 473-6800. marincenter.org.

01/11: Tango Buenos Aires 3pm. $20-40.

Marin Veterans Memorial Auditorium, 10 Avenue of the Flags, San Rafael. 473-6800. marincenter.org.

Brothers Keeper featuring John Popper of Blues Traveler and Jono Manson Sat 1/10 • Doors 8pm • ADV $15 / DOS $20

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Tue 1/13 • Doors 7pm • FREE

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you can buy right off the wall. Closing party 3-5pm Jan. 4. Free. Gallery Route One, 11101 Highway One, Point Reyes Station . 663-1347.

01/06: O’Hanlon Center for the Arts Member Show Reception 6-8pm Jan. 6. Group exhibi-

tion of sculpture, paintings, photography, collage and mixed media works. Free. O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, 616 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley.

388-4331. ohanloncenter.org.

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d’oeuvres, drinks and photographs by Katie Sugarman will raise money for the Maasai Girls Education Project. Limited edition prints will be available for sale and additional donations will be gratefully accepted. 6:30pm. The Image Flow, 401 Miller Ave., Mill Valley. 388-3569. www.theimageflow.com.

Kids Events 01/03: Explore Stafford Lake Park Come

out for an easy nature walk around beautiful Stafford Lake. This is a Healthy Parks, Healthy People event. 10am. Free. Stafford Lake Park, 3549 Novato Blvd, Novato. 893-9508. marincountyparks.org.

01/03: Pom-Pom Creatures Craft Make some googly-eyed monsters out of pipe cleaners and pom-poms. 1pm. Free. Marin City Library, 164 Donahue St, . Marin City. marinlibrary.org

01/02-04: Docent Led Tours at the Marine Mammal Center Hear the sounds of barking

sea lions, breathe in the fresh ocean air and see first-hand what it takes to rescue and rehab our flippered friends at The Marine Mammal Center, a veterinary hospital for seals and sea lions. On their docent-led tours, you and your family will learn of daring rescues, surprising injuries and heartwarming releases back to the ocean. The Marine Mammal Center hosts Marine Science Sundays on the second and fourth Sunday of each month with additional special activities and programs.

1pm. $9. The Marine Mammal Center, 2000 Bunker Road, Fort Cronkhite, Sausalito. 289-7356. marinemammalcenter.org.

01/10: Edward Madrill and the Sewan Native American Music and Dance Ensemble 11am. Included with museum admission. Bay

Area Kid’s Discovery Museum, 557 McReynolds Road, Sausalito. 339-3900. baykidsmuseum.org.

Outdoors 01/06: Birds at Bolinas Lagoon Start the

day at the south end of the lagoon while the tide is high and ducks should be plentiful. Then watch the shorebirds come in to feed as the tide recedesand up to Pine Gulch Delta to look for flocks of songbirds in the alder and willow forest, and eat lunch.This walk is for ages 15 and up. No pets (except service animals) please. Rain may cancel.

If questionable weather call (415) 893-9527 after 8am on the morning of the event.10am. Free.

Bolinas Lagoon, Highway 1, Bolinas. 893-9508. marincountyparks.org.

Readings 01/08: Why There Are Words Literary Reading Five Year Anniversary With Tom

Barbash, Ann Packer, Rob Roberge, Jason Roberts, Lalita Tademy, Ayelet Waldman. 7pm. $10. Studio 333, 333 Caledonia St., Sausalito. 331-8272. whytherearewords.com.

Community Events (Misc.)

01/02: 2015 Kickoff Singles Party Adults of all ages welcome. Dress to impress. 8pm. Embassy

Suites Hotel, 101 McInnis Pkwy, San Rafael.

507-9962. thepartyhotline.com.

01/03: One More Holiday Present for Seniors An introduction to meditation designed specifically for seniors. 11am. Free. Novato Library, 1729 Novato Blvd., Novato. 218-0762. marinlibrary.org.

01/03: Poetic Breakdown Poetry and Motivational Workshop with Hustle Diva Join Hustle Diva for a thought provoking event that will entertain, educate and introduce you to your best self. 3pm. Free. Marin City Library, 164 Donahue St., Marin City. marinlibrary.org.

01/02-04: Santa Rosa Gem Faire Noon6pm, Sat. 10am-6pm, Sun. Fine jewelry, precious & semi-precious gemstones, millions of beads, crystals, gold & silver, minerals and more. $7 weekend pass. Sonoma County Fairgrounds, 1350 Bennett Valley Road, Santa Rosa. 503/252-8300. gemfaire.com.

01/06: Henry E. Bothin: Philanthropist of Steel Bothin’s lasting legacy was his commitment to charitable endeavors including working with a pulmonary specialist to seek a cure for tuberculosis. He donated 157 acres of his ranch in Fairfax to create Hill Farm, a convalescent facility for children, and Arequipa, a tubercular sanatorium for women. Mr. Casey will autograph copies of his book at this event. Noon. Free. Civic Center Library, 3501 Civic Center Drive, Room 427, San Rafael. 473-6058.

01/07: First Wednesday Art Talk Series

Art talk and slide lecture led by docent, Avril Angevine, of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. “California Artists: From Figure to Funk.”

This slide lecture showcases Northern California artists from the 1950s to the 1980s, such as Robert Arneson, Joan Brown, Jay DeFeo, Richard Diebenkorn, David Park, and Wayne Thiebaud. First Wednesday Art Talks are sponsored by the Friends of the San Rafael Public Library. 12:30pm. Seating is limited. Free. City of San Rafael City Hall Council Chambers, 1400 Fifth Ave., San Rafael.

485-3321. srpubliclibrary.org.

01/09: Finances for Women FiftyPlus The YWCA FiftyPlus Employment Support Program for Women will hold its Free Finances@50 workshop from, 12-1:30pm on Friday, Jan. 9 and 16. This two-part workshop is designed to help participants build on their good money habits and understand what changes they can make to improve their financial situation. Workshop topics include budgeting and goal setting, taking charge of credit and debit, and how to focus their efforts on developing a savings plan and protecting assets.

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ARIES (March 21 - April 19) Did you accidently swipe right for a friend on Tinder, Aries? Don’t panic—your eleventh house is here to bring you a bounty of good luck in the platonic and technology department. Your finger faux pas might end up leading you straight to your soul mate on Jan. 3.

TAURUS (April 20 - May 20) Get out your planner, Taurus—it’s time for a brand new Moleskin! Ringing in 2015 has you thinking about all-things future. While your practical side is a major draw for many—especially your partner—asking him or her to decide the name of your unconceived child’s dog is pushing it. Live in the now on Jan. 5.

GEMINI (May 21 - June 20) Did you play a game or two of Monopoly over the holidays, Gemini? You may have bought Boardwalk and Park Place, but that doesn’t make you the next Donald Trump of Hasbro. Although, finances will be at the forefront of your mind, and your instincts are on point. Open a savings account and buy a lotto ticket on Jan. 6.

CANCER (June 21 - July 22) We get it, Cancer—you’ve been playing it cool. Newsflash: It’s apparent to everyone else (other than yourself) that you’ve got the hots for a special someone. You may be feeling a little reclusive and have been hoping to channel a mysterious side, but your undying gaze of affection is leaving a few obvious clues. Just give in already!

LEO (July 23 - Aug. 22) Time to team up, Leo! Your charm and zeal have the crowds flocking to you on Jan. 2. Whether you’re looking for work or play, Venus and Mars have made it an ideal time to partner up with a creative counterpart or select someone for a Tristan and Isoldeinspired tryst. You’ve got the gift of gab—no question or thought is off limits with your magnetism.

VIRGO (Aug. 23 - Sept. 22) Time to get organized, Virgo! Well, what’s new? You are the inspiration for many when it comes to getting things in order, but on Jan. 7 you’ll be implementing a few new ideas. You may feel a little worn down from all the holiday cheer this year, but your creative side is buzzing for new ways to categorize your canned food.

LIBRA (Sept. 23 - Oct. 22) Say goodbye to your noncommittal ways, Libra! The full moon in Cancer on Jan. 4 will have you mapping out the next decade of your life with a special someone. Wondering if you were ever going to get hitched at City Hall or sign a lease with your partner?

Ponder no more—the stars want you to find (and keep around) a partner in crime.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23 - Nov. 21) Your presence may be required, Scorpio, but that doesn’t mean you’re going to make an appearance! You’re overdue for a little hibernation and resting. Indulge in Venus, the planet of love, and cuddle up with your significant other on Jan. 3. There’s no real reason to head out of the house, unless it’s to pick up a pizza or a Redbox movie.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22 - Dec. 21) Were you hoping for the diamond ring around Christmas time, Sagittarius? Just because your partner didn’t get down on one knee, doesn’t mean he or she isn’t committed. In fact, your ticket to Engagement Town might be headed your way sooner than you think on Jan. 4. (Sorry for ruining the surprise!)

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22 - Jan. 19) Get ready for progress in the love department, Capricorn! Things are a-changin’! You have your partner and the full moon in Cancer to thank for that. You hit your breaking point when your significant other tried to recycle broken Christmas lights. But break no more! Common sense and changes are around the corner and boding well for your love life.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20 - Feb. 18) It takes two, Aquarius! In this case: Mars and Venus. These two fire-hot planets are calling on romance to head your way. Your charm has been undeniable and you can’t help but feel it. Let your libido lead you on Jan. 8!

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A safe, successful MOTHERLESS DAUGHTERS GROUP for women who have lost their mothers through death, separation, illness, or estrangement in childhood, adolescence, or adulthood meets every other Tuesday, 6:30 – 8:00 PM in San Anselmo. In a supportive environment, women address and explore relevant issues in their lives, current and past, including relationships, self-identity, the many consequences of mother loss, other loss, and trauma. The group provides opportunities for healing and growth, deepening self-empowerment, gaining acknowledgement for “normal” responses, and support for pursuing individual goals. Facilitated and developed since 1997 by Colleen Russell, LMFT (MFC29249), CGP (41715) with over 20 years experience, whose mother’s death at 15 was a pivotal event in her life. Individual, couple, and family sessions also available. Phone: 415-785-3513.Email: crussellmft@earthlink.net. Website: www.colleenrussellmft.com .

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2014-136173 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business:MERIT ILLUSTRATION, 500 OAKCREST ROAD, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960: ANDREW MERIT, 803 RHODE ISLAND ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94107.

The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on Dec 04,2014.

(Publication Dates: Dec 12,19,26 of 2014, Jan 2, 2015) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 135999 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business:CALIFORNIA YOUTH CHEERLEADING, 10 ROSS ROAD, SAUSALITO, CA 94965: KRISTI MARIE STEWART, 10 ROSS ROAD, SAUSALITO, CA 94965.The business is being conducted

by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on November 05, 2014.(Publication Dates: Dec 12,19,26 of 2014, Jan 2, 2015) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2014135983 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: AGGRECATER, 831 S. ELISEO DR, GREENBRAE, CA 94904: GREGORY KALLICK, 831 S. ELISEO DR, GREENBRAE, CA 94904.The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on November 03, 2014.(Publication Dates: Dec 12,19,26 of 2014, Jan 2, 2015) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 136175 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: HAWTHORNE HILLS PROPERTY MAINTENANCE, 55 HAWTHORNE AVE, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960: CARLO PASSALALPI, 55 HAWTHORNE AVE, SAN ANSELMO, CA 94960.The business is being conducted

by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on December 05, 2014.(Publication Dates: Dec 12,19,26 of 2014, Jan 2, 2015) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 136179 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: GOLD RUSH JEWELERS, 831 4TH ST, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: RICK LEWIS, 831 4TH STREET, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901.

The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant is renewing filing with changes and is transacting business, under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on December 05, 2014.

(Publication Dates: Dec 12,19,26 of 2014, Jan 2, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 136160 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: VIBRANT ENERGY CENTER, 345 KNIGHT DR, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: CYNTHIA WELSH, 345 KNIGHT DR, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901.The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on December 02, 2014.(Publication Dates: Dec 12,19,26 of 2014, Jan 2, 2015)

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STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME File No. 304588 The following person(s) has/have abandoned the use of a fictitious business name(s). The information given below

is as it appeared on the fictitious business statement that was filed at the Marin County Clerk-Recorder's Office on FEBRUARY 28,2014.Under File No: 134218.

Fictitious Business name(s):GLASSWORK, 1111 E. FRANCISCO BLVD, # A, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: MARYAM PAK, 1111 E.FRANCISCO BLVD, #A, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901. This statement was filed with the County Clerk Recorder of Marin County on November 26, 2014.(Publication Dates: Dec 12,19,26 of 2014, Jan 2, 2015) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2014136198 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: WHO WALKS YOUR DOG?, 14 ROUNDTREE BLVD, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: IZAROA RANCH LLC, 14 ROUNDTREE BLVD, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903.The business is being conducted by A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on December 09, 2014.(Publication Dates: Dec 12,19,26 of 2014, Jan 2, 2015) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 136186 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: MARIN SHIATSU, 968 SECOND ST, NOVATO, CA 94945: JAMES CHU YUEN CHEUNG, 748 FILBERT ST, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94133.The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business from Jan 2015 under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on December 08, 2014.

(Publication Dates: Dec 12,19,26 of 2014, Jan 2, 2015) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 136194 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: ARY PRODUCTIONS, 53 MIWOK WAY, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941: RAJESH GOVIND SOLANKI, 53 MIWOK WAY, MILL VALLEY, CA 94941.The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein.

This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on Dec 09,2014.(Publication Dates: Dec 19,26 of 2014, Jan 2,9 of 2015) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 136180 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: TIERRA Y MAR, 1682 NOVATO BLVD, STE 151, NOVATO, CA 94947: A W DIRECT INC., 1682 NOVATO BLVD, STE 151, NOVATO, CA 94947.The business is being conducted by A CORPORATION. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on Dec 05,2014.(Publication Dates: Dec 19,26 of 2014, Jan 2,9 of 2015) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 136206 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: MARIN HOME REMODELING, 454 LAS GALLINAS AVE, STE #160, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: SERGIO O ESPINOZA, 819 RINCON WAY. SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903.

The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on Dec 10,2014.

(Publication Dates: Dec 19,26 of 2014, Jan 2,9 of 2015)

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2014136211 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: OMNI STONE MUSIC, 14 DARTMOUTH DRIVE, LARKSPUR, CA 94939: THOMAS F CONNEELY III, 14 DARTMOUTH DRIVE, LARKSPUR, CA 94939.The business is being conducted

by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This

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statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on Dec 10,2014.(Publication Dates: Dec 19,26 of 2014, Jan 2,9 of 2015) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 136105 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: THAI AROI DEE RESTAURANT, 1518 FOURTH STREET, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: 1) JOSE FERNANDO FERNANDEZ, 3890 MARKET ST. # 3, SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94131, 2) CHALOEI TRONGTORKIT, 3890 MARKET ST. # 2, SAN FRANCISCO,CA 94131.The business is being conducted

by CO-PARTNERS. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on Nov 20,2014.(Publication Dates: Dec 19,26 of 2014, Jan 2,9 of 2015) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 136233 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: CASA DEL PALMAR # 1, 757 LINCOLN AVE # 29, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: EL PALMAR ENTERPRISES INC, 757 LINCOLN AVE # 29, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901.The business is being conducted

by A CORPORATION. Registrant is renewing filing with NO changes and is transacting business, under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein . This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on Dec 16,2014.(Publication Dates: Dec 19,26 of 2014, Jan 2,9 of 2015) STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT OF USE OF FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME File No. 304589 The following person(s) has/have abandoned the use of a fictitious business name(s). The information given below is as it appeared on the fictitious business statement that was filed at the Marin County Clerk-Recorder's Office on MARCH 26,2010.Under File No: 123613.

Fictitious Business name(s) MARIN HOME REMODELING, 2062 FELIZ RD,NOVATO, CA 94945: COLIN P. BIRMINGHAM, 2062 FELIZ RD, NOVATO, CA 94945.This statement was filed with the County Clerk Recorder of Marin County on Dec 10, 2014.(Publication Dates: Dec 19,26 of 2014, Jan 2,9 of 2015) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2014136245 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: GREAT SPIRIT MUSIC, 14 DARTMOUTH DRIVE, LARKSPUR, CA 94939: THOMAS F CONNEELY 111, 14 DARTMOUTH DRIVE, LARKSPUR, CA 94939.The business is being conducted

by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on Dec 16,2014.(Publication Dates: Dec 26 of 2014, Jan 2,9,16 of 2015) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2014136240 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: PEKING WOK RESTAURANT, 418 LAS GALLINAS AVENUE, SAN RAFAEL, CA 94903: NAN XIAO, 225 BRIGHT STREET, SAN FRANCSICO, CA 94132.The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on Dec 16,2014.(Publication Dates: Dec 26 of 2014, Jan 2,9,16 of 2015) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 136265 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: ANNY'S HAIR STUDIO, 141 ALTO ST,SAN RAFAEL, CA 94901: MARIO DURAN, 350 BOLINAS RD, FAIRFAX, CA 94930.The business is being conducted

by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on Dec 19,2014.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2014136293 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: SONRISA, 5501 HARBORD DR, OAKLAND, CA 94618: NEGAR BAHARLOU, 5501 HARBORD DR, OAKLAND, CA 94618.

The business is being conducted by AN INDIVIDUAL. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County Clerk-Recorder of Marin County on Dec 23,2014.

(Publication Dates: Jan 2,9,16,23 of 2015) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT File No. 2014136291 The following individual(s) is (are) doing business: UNIQUE INK, INC., 1465 VISTAZO WEST STREET, TIBURON, CA 94920: UNIQUE HOMES INC., 2443 E. COAST HWY, CORONA DEL MAR, CA 92625.The business is being conducted

by A CORPORATION. Registrant will begin transacting business under the fictitious business name(s) listed herein. This statement was filed with the County ClerkRecorder of Marin County on Dec 23,2014 (Publication Dates: Jan 2,9,16,23 of 2015)

OTHER NOTICES ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF MARIN. No. CIV 1404180. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner MONIQUE DONELDA SANDLIN filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: MONIQUE DONELDA SANDLIN to CLAIRUN PEHERROUS THEALWY. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: 01/15/2014 AT 09:00 AM, DEPT L, ROOM L, Superior Court of California, County of Marin, 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94903. A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Marin: PACIFIC SUN. Date OF FILING: Dec 9, 2014, (Publication Dates: Dec 12,19,26 of 2014, Jan 2, 2015) NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: IAN ROY JAMES Case No. PR-1404652 filed on Dec 10,2014.To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of IAN ROY JAMES. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by: DAVID K. JAMES in the Superior Court of California, County of MARIN. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that DAVID K. JAMES

be appointed as the personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. THE PETITION requests the decedent's will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action). The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: JANUARY 20, 2015 at 8:30 a.m. in Dept. H, Room H, of the Superior Court of California, Marin County, located at Superior Court of California, County of Marin, 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903. IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or A CONTINGENT CREDITOR OF THE DECEDENT, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative , as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under Section 9052 of the California Probate Code. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Petitioner: DAVID K. JAMES, 105 SCENIC ROAD, FAIRFAX, CA 94930.

TELEPHONE: 415-457-6302. (Publication Dates: Dec 19,26 of 2014, Jan 2 of 2015)

objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: 01/28/2015 08:30 AM, DEPT B, ROOM B, Superior Court of California, County of Marin, 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94903. A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Marin: PACIFIC SUN. Date OF FILING: Dec 17, 2014. (Publication Dates:Dec 26 of 2014, Jan 2,9,16 of 2015.)

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF MARIN. No. CIV 1404771. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner MOLLIE TOVAR and MIGUEL TOVAR filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: CHARLOTTE CARTER HAUTAU TO CHARLOTTE CARTER TOVAR. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING: 02/13/2015 AT 09:00 AM, ROOM L, DEPT L, Superior Court of California, County of Marin, 3501 Civic Center Drive, San Rafael, CA 94903. A copy of this ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in the county of Marin: PACIFIC SUN. Date OF FILING: DEC 19, 2014, (Publication Dates: Jan 2,9,16,23 of 2015.)

AMENDED ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF MARIN. No. CIV 1404177.

TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner KRISTEN ANNE KOENIG filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: KRISTEN ANNE KOENIG to LILIANNA KRISTEN PARKER. THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter shall appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the

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I’m a 30-something woman, and my best friend is a guy. We talk and text day and night, and I truly adore him. All our friends think we should be dating, but I don’t feel sexually attracted to him. I agree that we’d otherwise make a perfect couple. Can chemistry grow or be built?—Bestie

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There’s no such thing as a one-night friendship, and for good reason—because friendship is based on trust, fondness, and mutual respect, not on how the other person’s butt fills out a pair of pants.

And though you might love your friend as a human being, loving him as something more won’t work unless you also feel a little short of breath when you see him bend over.

Unfortunately, this isn’t a feeling you can practice and get better at like the clarinet. Who you have the hots for is partly borne of history, like when a guy’s lip curl pings up your tween longing for the older bad boy next door. There are also some evolved “human universals” at play in attraction, like how women across cultures tend to prefer a man who’s taller than they are. And even your immune system seems to have a say. Research

by Switzerland’s Claus Wedekind and others suggests that we evolved to be attracted to the scent of a partner with an immune system dissimilar to our own—one that would combine forces with ours to make a baby with a broad set of defenses against infection and disease.

Though you (and others aspiring to be attracted to somebody they’re fond of) surely mean well, you can’t give sexual bonus points to somebody for being a good person. It’s actually cruel to get romantic with somebody you aren’t attracted to, and biology doesn’t help matters. The hormone-driven heat of the naked and new is easily mistaken for attraction, but it’s actually just a temporary biochemical Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride. Before long, your newly beloved will be about as appealing a sex partner as your desk lamp, and you’ll be mulling over whether you’d rather get it on or snip off a few of your toes with rusty bolt cutters.

Ask yourself something: Why do you have to be all “let’s take this to the next level” anyway? Romantic partners often crow about the wonderfulness of their relationship by saying they’re “best friends.” You already have that. And frankly, platonic has its benefits, like how there’s no canceling plans because it’s “that time of the month” or you accidentally dyed your hair the color of Bozo’s ugly shoes. And ultimately, two people are far more likely to “grow old together” if they aren’t the sort of best friends who have sex, which comes with all sorts of risks and complications. (Note that reality TV shows have titles like Wives With Knives and not Best Friends Chasing Each Other With Hatchets, and the detective on The First 48 never says, “Yeah, whenever somebody dies of suspicious causes, the first one we look at is the BFF.”)

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My new boyfriend asked me to dye my ashy blonde hair dark. I think it would be fun to go brunette, but it seems rather unfeminist to do it for him. The bigger problem is that I recently stumbled across some photos of his ex-girlfriend of eight years, a brunette. Should I be concerned that he’s still into her and I’m just a stand-in?—Wigging

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Sure, a romantic partner can go too far in making appearance-related requests, like by asking you to have a new set of breasts bolted on or to wear a ski mask to the liquor store. But the reality is, we all transform ourselves to be more physically appealing to romantic partners and others. It’s the reason for Rogaine, lipstick, and those control-top pantyhose that make you feel like someone’s giving your intestines an all-day mammogram. And here’s a man you want to want you. Why would fulfilling this request—one you deem “fun”—be a bad thing? Yes, there is the question of whether he’s asking this because he thinks you’d look hot as a brunette or because you’d look like the hot brunette he dated before. But there’s a simple way to figure that out, and it’s calmly (and non-prosecutorially) asking him about this hair color preference, as well as what he sees in you (lookswise and otherwise). Keep asking until you either are satisfied with his answers or—sadly—realize that this request is just a prelude to other requests. (Really, all you’d have to do is a few pages of paperwork to legally change your name, saving him the pain and expense of getting that “Melanie” tattoo lasered off his “special place.”) Y ©Amy Alkon, all rights reserved. Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail AdviceAmy@ aol.com (www.advicegoddess.com). Amy Alkon’s Advice Goddess Radio—listen live every Sunday—http://www.blogtalkradio.com/ amyalkon/—7-8pm, or listen or download at the link at iTunes or on Stitcher. And watch for her new book: “Good Manners for Nice People Who Sometimes Say F*ck.”

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